Oil is probably going to be the touchy issue in this year’s presidential elections. With crude oil prices rising beyond $150/barrel, going down but always threatening to go up for the next couple of years, it is expected that tons of papers and office supplies will be bought and used for the purpose of distributing discourses on the oil issue. I will not be surprised nor disappointed with this. With the fate of the world hanging on mid east crude, it will be best for healthy discussions aimed at resolving this issue to the benefit of the world’s oil consuming population continue.
One of the most moving speeches that I've read. During grade school, this was the most often recited elocution piece in my school. Here it is, the text of Raul Manglapus' Land of Bondage, Land of the Free. Land of Bondage, Land of the Free By Raul Manglapus And yet, ladies and gentlemen, the tao is constitutionally free! No wonder, then, that the tao being a slave has acquired the habits of a slave. No wonder that after three centuries in chains, without freedom, without hope, he should lose the erect and fearless posture of a freeman, and become the bent, misshapen, indolent, vicious, pitiful thing that he is! Who dares accuse him now? Who dares rise up in judgement against this man, reduced to this subhuman level by three centuries of oppession? Ladies and gentlemen the tao does not come here tonight to be judged -- but to judge! Hear then his accusation and his sentence: I indict the Spanish encomendero for inventing taxes impossible to pay! I indict the usurer for s...
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